It is likely that Shaw's disquisition for the Fabian Society inspired Wilde's article in the sense that Looking Backward inspired News from Nowhere--that is, as the excuse for a rejection of its anaemically 'practical' rather than red-bloodedly 'utopian' commitment to socialist politics.

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